Exam 11: Performance Appraisals

_____ is the best appraisal format across the five criteria for evaluating rating formats.

Which of the following is NOT a strength of supervisors as raters?

In _____ ranking, raters look at a list of employees, decide who the best employee is, and cross that person's name off the list.From the remaining names, the manager decides who the worst employee is and crosses that name off the list-and so forth.

All of the following are categories of rater training EXCEPT _____ training.

Subordinate ratings _____.

Subordinate ratings are more accurate when they are not anonymous.

Which is the most popular appraisal method that uses outcomes as a standard?

In situations where the nature of the task is so uncertain that it may be difficult to specify expected goals, the most appropriate rating format is _____.

When a job involves very routine, mechanistic tasks, the most appropriate appraisal format is:

What was Deming's major criticism against performance appraisals?

The behaviorally anchored rating scales are inexpensive to develop but time-consuming to use.

Halo error is the error that occurs when an employee is downgraded across all performance dimensions exclusively because of poor performance in one dimension.

For the same level of performance, employees low in a pay range receive higher percentage increases than employees higher in the range.

Performance-standard training provides raters with a standard of comparison or frame of reference for making appraisals.

Which of the following is NOT true regarding performance appraisals?

A major criticism of standard rating scales is that:

During performance appraisals, managers tend to focus on either good performance, counterproductive performance, or both.

Describe the paired-comparison ranking method.

Employees who are dissatisfied with performance appraisals are less satisfied with their pay.

A horn error occurs when an employee is: